A younger Northeast Range/Ely ladies swimming staff is taking steps ahead within the water.
Visiting Rock Ridge edged the Nighthawks 49-42 on Tuesday, whereas Mesabi East swam away with a 60-34 victory in a Sept. 4 encounter.
The Nighthawks have been aggressive in each meets towards extra skilled groups.
“The girls are working hard at practice, so we are swimming a little tired,” stated NRE Head Coach Cheri DeBeltz. “But overall it’s going well.”
Rock Ridge piled up factors early on within the meet at Babbitt, with Paige Robillard successful each the 100 butterfly and 200 particular person medley and Samantha Bartovich taking each the 200 and 500 freestyles.
NRE’s lone aggressive firstplace end got here within the 100 backstroke as Tuuli Koivisto completed in 1:17.89.
The remaining Nighthawk wins got here in occasions through which Rock Ridge had quicker swimmers in exhibition.
Top-three finishers for NRE have been as follows:
• 200 medley relay – 2. Via De-Beltz, Jorden Borchert, Koivisto, Alyssa Ice, 2:17.59;
• 200 freestyle – 2. DeBeltz, 2:22.37;
• 200 particular person medley – 2. Koivisto, 2:53.29;
• 50 freestyle – 2. Ice, 28.71; 3. Borchert, 30.67;
• 100 butterfly – 3. Lindsay Israel 1:36.66;
• 100 freestyle – 1. Ivy Ohlhauser, 1:09.79;
• 500 freestyle – 2. DeBeltz, 6:19.88;
• 200 freestyle relay – 1. Borchert, DeBeltz, Koivisto, Ice, 2:01.97; 2. Israel, Ohlhauser, Evelyn Moran, Lucy Luthens, 2:04.99;
•100 backstroke – 1. Koivisto, 1:17.89; 3. Moon Vetos-Keen, 1:32.78;’
• 100 breaststroke – 3. Borchert, 1:30.35;
• 400 freestyle relay – 1. Ohlhauser, Israel, Borchert, Luthens, 4:42.99.
In the junior varsity race, Moran (100 particular person medley) and Raegan Borchert (300 freestyle) had particular person wins, whereas second-place finishes went to Nicole Freking (300 freestyle) and Luthens (100 breaststroke). One of the highlights of the matchup with Mesabi East got here within the 200 freestyle relay, as DeBeltz, Jorden Borchert, Koivisto and Ice mixed to win in 1:59.91, getting previous a Mesabi East foursome by simply over a second.
That was the Nighthawks’ solely win of the afternoon, though De-Beltz pulled particular person runner-up showings in each the 200 (2:19.97) and 500 (6:34.06) freestyle occasions.
Ice additionally had two runner-up finishes, putting second in each the 50 (28,95) and 100 (1:07.48) freestyles.
Koivisto (1:20.24) was second within the 100 backstroke and Jorden Borchert had the identical end within the 100 breaststroke (1:29.27).
The 200 medley relay staff of Koivisto, DeBeltz, Ohlhauser and Ice wound up second in 2:22.95, whereas particular person thirds went to Luthens (200 freestyle), Koivisto (200 particular person medley), Israel (100 butterfly), Ohlhauser (100 freestyle) and Maddie Johnson (100 breaststroke).
Freking (200 freestyle), Raegan Borchert (300 freestyle) and Vetos-Keen (100 backstroke) had junior varsity firsts.
The swimmers get their first style of multi-school competitors Saturday throughout a meet at Hibbing.